A major development of capabilities started four years ago within Hungary’s armed forces, the defence minister said in an interview. The development process will continue under the country’s military concept fully supported by NATO, he said.
This year’s assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) held in Budapest is hoped to give an impetus to the notion of Europe’s renewal based on Christian values, Hungary’s Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog said on Saturday evening, addressing the event.
The Day of Slovaks in Hungary was celebrated in Pálháza, a village on the Slovak border in north-eastern Hungary, on Saturday. In his address after an ecumenical service in the local Catholic church, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog emphasised the importance of friendship and mutual trust between the Hungarian and Slovak nations.
The Stipendium Hungaricum Student Scholarship Programme also contributes to the development of the host institution by increasing the capabilities of our universities and colleges to attract foreign students through assuring payment of course costs, and also contributes to increasing our international competitiveness.
The summer camp organised by the National Roma Government opened on Monday in the locality of Velence situated in Fejér County where five hundred disadvantaged and Roma children will enjoy a summer holiday in the next few weeks, thanks, inter alia, to the funding of HUF 15 million provided by the Ministry of Human Resources.
State Secretary heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár has concluded an agreement with the Jewish Heritage of Hungary Public Endowment and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany so that Holocaust survivors of Hungarian origin living in foreign countries may receive compensation as soon as possible.
In the month of June 2013, the central sub sector of the state budget registered a monthly deficit of 162.3bn HUF. Within that, the central state budget posted a deficit of 186.4bn HUF, while Extra Budgetary State Funds and Social Security Funds registered surpluses of 9.4bn HUF and 14.7bn HUF, respectively.
The Visegrad Group should cooperate closely with the Baltic states, Foreign Ministry Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle declared in Riga on July 5.
The Government will treat support for small and medium-sized companies (SME) as a priority this year, Economy Minister Mihály Varga told a business forum today.
Hungary and Morocco are ideally situated to boost each other’s commercial and investment activities in their own respective regions, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said. Morocco is an ideal bridgehead for Hungarian companies into the rest of Africa, Minister Martonyi told a joint news conference with Saad Addin Al-Osmani, his Moroccan counterpart.